Atilla Ozgur Cakmak (Penn State Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization) is the featured speaker for the Physics
Colloquium on Friday, November 11, at 2:30 p.m. in Weyandt 331. The title of the talk
is “Mission Impossible: Trapping the Sun with Nanotechnology in Solar Cells.”
Energy output from Sun is the best resource with greatest
potentials to help meet the global-energy needs. Cakmak’s presentation will discuss the importance of the
nanostructures for light trapping for designing ultra-thin novel solar cells.
The multidisciplinary
research opportunities in nanotechnology, which enable the driving force for
research in solar cells at Penn State University, will be presented. Other
supportive steps like one-year, non-thesis master’s degree at Penn State, and an
NMT capstone semester are new to this program.
Department of Physics